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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
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The silhouette of the mountain was used for the cover art of the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL by Alexander Shulgin. In the book The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, Piper McLean's father is captured and help captive on the summit of Mount Diablo by the giant Enceladus. The pop-punk band The Story So Far have a song named after the mountain on their debut ...
The Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund; NH State Parks — An end is just a new beginning; 19th-century paintings of the Old Man of the Mountain; Photos from atop the Old Man of the Mountain after the collapse; The Evolution of Cannon Cliff project (Dartmouth College et al.) The project's The Old Man of the Mountain in 3D StoryMap
A traditional silhouette portrait of the late 18th century. A silhouette (English: / ˌ s ɪ l u ˈ ɛ t /, [1] French:) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the ...
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism [1] is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing , skiing , and traversing via ferratas that have become sports in their own right.
Thomas Hill (1829–1908) Mount Lafayette in Winter 1870. White Mountain art is the body of work created during the 19th century by over four hundred artists who painted landscape scenes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire in order to promote the region and, consequently, sell their works of art.
Emerson was a frequent visitor, and made the mountain the subject of "Monadnoc", [8] one of his most famous poems. Thoreau visited the mountain four times between 1844 and 1860, and spent a great deal of time observing and cataloging natural phenomena. He is regarded as having written one of the first serious naturalist inventories of the mountain.